Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
KURT VONNEGUTMany people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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